I've been AWOL here the last while, as I threw all of my attention and efforts into writing, editing and publishing my very first book!I just published it on Amazon and it should be hitting the digital shelves within the next 12 hours!A big thing people look at when deciding whether to buy a book is what the reviews about it say. So, if anyone here is interested in reading it and giving me a review on Amazon, I will give you a FREE pdf copy of it for helping me out.I don't mean to be spammy her

I've been doing a lot in the last year or so to grow and improve my life. That's a huge reason why I'm here at WA, after all.Part of this improvement involves reading books ranging from self help to money management. The one I'm currently on has an interesting chapter in it about what and who you surround yourself with. It states that it you take the average income of the five people you hang around with the most, that is likely in the ball park of your income.It talks about how, if you want to

I religiously check Google Analytics, as well as several other metric checkers (my WA stas, Jaaxy stats, Google Webmaster, etc etc) to see how I'm doing and if I appear to be trending in the right direction.Today I logged onto Analytics and was surprised to see a huge jump in traffic yesterday. (Almost 2000%!) This was seriously out of the norm and is on my newer site so I was pretty shocked and a fair bit skeptical. Scrolling down, I saw that 98% of the traffic was 'Direct' which basically mea

Ranking changes are being put in place right now. As Carson has communicated in the Live ChatI would not get too excited about being an Ambassador as the changes are not complete yet and it might disappear from your profile shortly!I look forward to Carson's update and seeing where I fall under the new rankings. So far, I'm back out of the top 200. How did everyone else do? Do you think this new system is an improvement based on who is now where, or is it too early to tell?